Ik heb theoretisch een bootable usb gemaakt met de "Create a USB startup disk"- functie gemaakt om Ubuntu via usb op mijn laptopje te zetten.
Vervolgens in de bios de usb HDD Flash disk als eerste in de rij gezet.
Maarrrrr........ boot ik dan, dan krijg ik de melding dat ie een operating system mist.
Wie o wie?
zou het iets te maken kunnen hebben met onderstaande
USB HDD (as opposed to USB keys) draw much power. If they are not self powered (wall plug), they sometime need to be connected to two usb sockets to have enough power, and are is this case sold with special USB cable with the necessary two plugs.
Some bioses map the USB device only on demand, so even if you have any Linux installed, you can't boot the USB key from there at the first menu level (at least with GRUB), because GRUB don't know there is an USB device there.
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When USB booting fails
Some PCs are not capable of booting from an external USB drive, no matter which BIOS setting you use or what you put into GRUB menu.lst. There are alternative solutions available.
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Using internal drive
Another solution is to prepare a small partition in the internal hard drive, format as ext3 and mount /boot at that partition, install GRUB directly to the MBR and configure the BIOS to boot from the internal drive. Remember to plugin the external drive while booting to Ubuntu (Remove the external drive won't affect GRUB using this methoed)
